1 Peseta Pardines

Pardines is a tiny Pyrenean municipality in the comarca of Ripollès — its 1937 paper issue belongs to the vast wave of emergency small-change notes produced by Catalan local governments after the outbreak of the Civil War drained metallic coinage from circulation almost overnight. The Generalitat de Catalunya authorized municipalities to issue their own billetes de necesidad, and hundreds did, ranging from major cities to villages with populations in the hundreds.

Pardines almost certainly had fewer than 200 inhabitants when this note was authorized. That extreme scarcity of surviving examples is built into the issue itself — tiny print runs, hyper-local circulation, and no banking infrastructure to manage redemption.